I wouldn't hand out a Monopoly, but I would also use regulation to prevent a Monopoly to keep small business competitive.

Like if an international conglomerate came along and started putting smaller companies out of business.

so practical regulation to promote an effective market?

Due to their ability to get massive bulk.

The difficult part is deciding for competition.

Like the USA market isn't as free as you might think.

You could be getting even cheaper stuff, but the government regulates it in order to keep their people competitive in the market

Like potatoes are a recent example of the Federal government in the USA thinking about investigation and regulation in response to what the officials are calling "Potato Dumping" by Canada.

Super cheap surplus potatoes outcompete the domestic varieties.

Farmers lose revenue.

farm subsidies and regulations causes us to use our resources in the worst way possible.

farmers are encouraged to produce unneeded food

Well, either that or your farmers quit.

I would rather some quit

All of them might though.

the chances of that are incredibly slim

Well if the farmers are losing money

And can no longer stay in business...

Then what is keeping them there?

the us has some of the best farming land in the world, we are some of the biggest producers, our produce is superior in quality too

I wouldn't say that

It's certainly larger in many cases, but the flavour I find to be off in many things.

Like the tomatoes.

The tomatoes have a weirdly... Grainy texture.

And they're hard to break down.

Thank you Kanye, very cool!

I was cooking with some California tomatoes and they were strange, parts were so tough that after 2 hours of cooking they were still hard.

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then you are getting the garbage tomatoes

The quantity and consistency of the produce is to be praised, I guess.

Well, I got them in season, and they were from California...

I get amazing produce here in california

I found the flavour lacking, and the toughness strange.

best produce in the world

They certainly looked nice.

way better than anywhere else I

*i've been

That's debatable

I think a farm that breeds for flavour would be much better.

Those are rare though.

ok, not the literal best. just in general